Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] kbuild: generate intermediate C files instead of copying _shipped files

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Fri Sep 08 2017 - 14:01:16 EST


On Fri, Sep 8, 2017 at 10:22 AM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Of course, I only did a "make allmodconfig" to test the MODVERSIONS
> case, I didn't actually install the modules. Is that error perhaps
> only detected at install time?

Oh, I take that back. I just got a ton of warnings with my
allmodconfig after doing a "git clean -dqfx".

So I guess there is a dependency issue - my normal build test after
the merge didn't show any issues, simply because the change in
ksymoops didn't actually cause the version information to be
re-generated.

It doesn't seem to happen for every exported symbol, though. Odd.

Looking at it, but not making sense of it yet.

Linus